lose touch

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lose one's touch (with someone or something)

Fig. to lose one's ability to handle someone or something. I seem to have lost my touch with my children. They won't listen to me anymore. We've both lost our touch as far as managing people goes.

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lose your touch

if you lose your touch, you can no longer do something as well as you could before (usually in continuous tenses) It's good to see their goalkeeper's not losing his touch.

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lose your touch

to no longer be able to do something as well as you could before In her latest book, O'Reilly seems to have lost her touch for creating interesting characters.

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lose touch (with somebody)

to no longer communicate with someone I lost touch with Katie after she moved to Canada.

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lose touch (with something)

to no longer have recent knowledge about something He has never lost touch with Mexican culture and traditions.

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Bolkonski only tried not to lose touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was happening in front of him. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context The nephew of one of the standard Victorian novelists, Mainhall bobbed about among the various literary cliques of London and its outlying suburbs, careful to lose touch with none of them. Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context I'm afraid I have let myself lose touch, but I mean to turn over a new leaf. A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context			lose heart to lose hold on lose in lose it lose marbles lose mind lose money on lose nerve lose oneself in lose out lose out to lose patience lose rag lose reason lose shirt lose sight of lose sleep lose sleep over lose some amount of time lose temper lose the plot lose the thread lose the use of lose time lose to lose touch lose touch with reality lose trace of lose track lose train of thought losing losing streak loss lost lost and gone forever lost cause lost for words lost in lost in the mists of time lost in the shuffle lost in thought lost on lost without lost-and-found lot lot of lot of give-and-take lot of nerve lot of promise Lots of luck! loud			lose temper lose temper lose temper lose temper lose the bearing lose the bearing lose the bearing lose the bearing Lose the Game lose the plot Lose the Points lose the thread lose the thread lose the thread lose the thread lose the use of lose the way lose the way lose the way lose thread lose thread lose thread lose time lose time lose time lose time lose to lose tongue lose tongue lose tongue lose touch lose touch with lose touch with reality lose touch with someone or something lose trace of lose track lose track lose track lose track lose track lose train of thought lose value lose water lose way lose way lose way lose weight lose weight lose weight lose weight lose weight Lose Weight with Cancer Lose Your Shirt Lose-Lose Situation Loseability Losec Losec losel losel Losel Shedrup Ling of Knoxville Loseless

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